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At the heart of the mystery, they suspect an elusive serial abductor lurks. But what they uncover is something darker still. MORI: The Lost Ones Volume 1 by Michael Seagard

At the heart of the mystery, they suspect an elusive serial abductor lurks. But what they uncover is something darker still. MORI: The Lost Ones Volume 1 by Michael Seagard

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Reverse hypertension, increase energy, and prevent or reverse heart disease no matter when you start! Heart Disease & Hypertension: Vitamin Therapy for a Healthy Heart by Bryant Lusk

It’s been twenty-five years since she sealed the Hellgate. Now, she’s gotta stop the apocalypse. Again. Reunion: An Over Forty Urban Fantasy Novel (The Hellgate Chronicles Book 1) by Jocelyn Lindsay

It’s been twenty-five years since she sealed the Hellgate. Now, she’s gotta stop the apocalypse. Again. Reunion: An Over Forty Urban Fantasy Novel (The Hellgate Chronicles Book 1) by Jocelyn Lindsay

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The story about a girl in search of her past who discovers a secret rooftop world in Paris… Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell

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She wants to leave the mafia life behind. He’ll protect her at all costs. The Mafioso’s Promise by Jade Styles

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Start building stronger bones today! Osteoporosis & Osteopenia: Vitamin Therapy for Stronger Bones by Bryant Lusk

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This is the true story of a kid trying to survive trouble of biblical proportions… Dream Monster: A Memoir by Kurt B. Dowdle

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She saved his life. Can he heal her heart? The Baron’s Return: A Regency Historical Romance (The Rakes of Mayhem Book 4) by Anna St. Claire

An uplifting and emotional story about rival chefs, glorious cooking, friendship, family ties—and romance… South Beach Love by Caridad Pineiro

An uplifting and emotional story about rival chefs, glorious cooking, friendship, family ties—and romance… South Beach Love by Caridad Pineiro

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Bulletin: Amazon Lowers Kindle Price to $189!

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Kindle Wireless Reading Device (6″ Display, Global Wireless, Latest Generation) 

Big news! Amazon has just lowered the price of the Kindle 2 with 3G global wireless and internal web connectivity to $189. There have been indications today that Kindle inventory may be on the low side, so here’s your link to get a Kindle at this all-time record low price while supplies last!

Here’s the guts of Amazon’s news release today:

AMAZON KINDLE NOW ONLY $189
Still with free 3G wireless–no monthly fees or annual contracts
 

SEATTLE, Jun 21, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) –Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that Amazon Kindle, the best e-reader on the market (see this recent press release from the world’s leading consumer reporting organization–http://pressroom.consumerreports.org/pressroom/2010/06/amazons-kindle-tops-cr-ebook-reader-ratings.html), is now only $189, down from $259. Kindle is the 3G wireless portable reader that allows you to think of a book and be reading in 60 seconds, from wherever you happen to be. Easy to read even in bright sunlight, the 10.2 ounce Kindle is light enough for one-handed reading. Even though it’s a 3G wireless device, Kindle has no monthly fees or annual contracts. The Kindle Store includes over 600,000 books and the largest selection of the most popular books people want to read, including 109 of 112 New York Times Bestsellers and New Releases from $9.99. In addition, over 1.8 million free, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books are available to read on Kindle. Since its release, Kindle has been the #1 bestselling product across the millions of items sold on Amazon. Kindle is in stock and available for immediate shipment at the new lower price of $189. Learn more at www.amazon.com/kindle.

J.A. Konrath, King of the Kindlesphere, Gives Big Publishers a Rejection Slip with “Endurance” and “Trapped”

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J.A. “Joe” Konrath is no stranger to the citizens of Kindle Nation, whether he is writing under his real name or his “Jack Kilborn” nom de plume. He was one of the first authors to be featured in our Free Kindle Nation Shorts program with his short story “The Screaming” in May 2009, he has been a frequent occupant of the highest rungs of the Kindle Store’s bestseller lists, and he made big publishing news just a few weeks ago with the announcement that his forthcoming novel Shaken, the 7th title in his bestselling Jack Daniels series, will be published by AmazonEncore as a Kindle edition in October and a paperback in February. He has sold over 50,000 Kindle books, and he has a huge following among Kindle Nation readers.

But today he is breaking some serious new ground for authors, publishers, and readers.

What’s the story?

Konrath is issuing a big fat rejection slip to the traditional publishing industry by pulling back Endurance, a “Jack Kilborn” novel that was headed for traditional publication, and publishing it directly and exclusively as a Kindle book at a price, at least for now, of $2.99. 

It’s on my Kindle, and it is available to download wirelessly to your Kindle, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry, PC, or Mac with a click of this link.

There will be another Konrath exclusive coming out later this week — Trapped, which had been accepted for traditional publication before Konrath pulled it back to publish it directly and exclusively himself — and we’ll be sure to issue a reminder here.  In addition to being a terrific and versatile author of thrillers, horror tales, and police procedurals, Konrath’s blog about publishing and writing is a must-read for anyone in the book trades, and you can keep up with it at A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing blog, or read Konrath’s similarly titled ebook, The Newbie’s Guide to Publishing (Everything A Writer Needs To Know).

Not every author who decides to circumvent the traditional publishers is going to experience anything close to Konrath’s success. But if you’re an author who is wondering whether direct publishing on the Kindle platform might work for you, here are a few things to consider:

  • If you publish a paperback novel with a traditional publisher, your royalties will be somewhere in the range of 60 cents to $1.50 per copy sold, based on the standard contract royalty rates of 6 to 10 percent and a retail priced between $10 and $15.
  • If you publish a Kindle ebook priced at $2.99 anytime after next week, your royalty will range between $2 and $2.07 based on a 70 percent royalty rate less a small charge for electronic transmission. At a price of $5.99, your royalty would be over $4.10. 
  • How much marketing power would you expect a traditional publisher to throw behind your book, if any? How much could you offset that force with your own marketing efforts and a much lower price?
  • How much would you be limiting your market by publishing on the Kindle platform. Or, to put the same question another way, how many of your likely readers are without any of the following Kindle-compatible devices: Kindle, PC, Mac, iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry, or iPad.

Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Monday, June 21: Goodbye, “ER” … Hello, “Critical Care” — A Medical Romance by Candace Calvert

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Critical Care
by Candace Calvert
4.4 out of 5 stars over 29 customer reviews

Review

“Good-bye, ER. Hello, Critical Care! Candace Calvert delivers a wonderful medical romance that peeks inside the doors of an ER to discover a cast of real-life characters who learn to love and live and discover God’s truths, all in the high-stress world of medicine. If you like ER and House, you’ll love Logan and Claire and their friends at Sierra Mercy. Give me another dose, and soon!”
—Susan May Warren, award-winning author of Happily Ever After and Nothing but Trouble

“I’ve always said if I weren’t an author, I’d be in the medical field, so it’s no wonder I ate up Candace Calvert’s new book Critical Care. I lived and breathed the problems and struggles in ER along with the characters. Terrific story and terrific writing. Can’t wait for the next one!”
—Colleen Coble, author of Cry in the Night and Lonestar Secrets

“Finally, a reason to turn off ER and Grey’s Anatomy. Here is a realistic medical drama with heart. Candace Calvert gets it right with page-turning prose, a heartwarming love story, and hope. Don’t make us wait too long for the next one!”
—Harry Kraus, MD, best-selling author of Salty Like Blood and Could I Have This Dance?

Product Description

After her brother dies in a trauma room, nurse Claire Avery can no longer face the ER. She’s determined to make a fresh start–new hospital, new career in nursing education–move forward, no turning back. But her plans fall apart when she’s called to offer stress counseling for medical staff after a heartbreaking day care center explosion. Worse, she’s forced back to the ER, where she clashes with Logan Caldwell, a doctor who believes touchy-feely counseling is a waste of time. He demands his staff be as tough as he is. Yet he finds himself drawn to this nurse educator . . . who just might teach him the true meaning of healing. 

Winter

Winter’s Passage by Julie Kagawa

Meghan Chase used to be an ordinary girl…until she discovered that she is really a faery princess. After escaping from the clutches of the deadly Iron fey, Meghan must follow through on her promise to return to the equally dangerous Winter Court with her forbidden love, Prince Ash. But first, Meghan has one request: that they visit Puck–Meghan’s best friend and servant of her father, King Oberon–who was gravely injured defending Meghan from the Iron Fey.
Yet Meghan and Ash’s detour does not go unnoticed. They have caught the attention of an ancient, powerful hunter–a foe that even Ash may not be able to defeat….
An eBook exclusive story from Julie Kagawa’s Iron Fey series.

Here’s another L. Ron Hubbard story, free in the Kindle store, to add to yesterday’s listing of The Last Drop:

 L. Ron Hubbard

Tuesday: The free promotional titles just keep on coming in the Kindle Store. Today we have L. Ron Hubbard’s The Last Drop and Moira Rogers’ Cry Sanctuary, the leadoff novel in her Red Rock Pass series.

The Last Drop
The Last Drop
Cry Sanctuary: Book 1 of Red Rock Pass series
Cry Sanctuary: Book 1 of Red Rock Pass series

Two mid-day additions to our updated list of dozens of free Kindle promotional titles:

Even Now
Even Now by Karen Kingsbury
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Violet Dawn
Violet Dawn by Brandilynn Collins
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A new daybook from inspirational author Zig Ziglar and a popular religious novel start the week’s free Kindle Store promotional listings:

by Dwight “Ike” Reighard 5.0 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews)
(Love Comes Softly Series, Book 1) by Janette Oke 4.8 out of 5 stars (104 customer reviews) 

Also, if you are a fan of Kindle Store bargains, don’t miss this weekend post:

Kindle Nation Daily Bargain Book Alert: 15 Great Reads from 79 Cents to $1.99!

Here’s the rest of our updated list of free promotional titles in the Kindle Store as of June 21:

Dude, Do I Have to Paint a Picture for You?

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I was reading an excellent post by Alex Wilhelm the other day at The Next Web, and I came across a telling comment by somebody named Lou Biggs. Like me, Mr. Biggs is a big fan of the iPad, but in his case that also seems to mean that he doesn’t understand what serious readers love about the Kindle. He responded to Wilhelm’s analysis with this comment:

Dude Kindle is not even back lit. You need a light to read at night. Who would want that??

I’m not going to begin here by suggesting that we should be dismissive of the “serious reader” chops of anyone who begins a comment by addressing the original poster as “Dude,” lest in doing so I reveal myself to be in some measure curmudgeonly. Instead, I will just note that Mr. Biggs is not entirely alone, among some subset of Apple fans, in failing to understand the limitations of the iPad’s lovely and magical backlit screen. And on the off chance that pictures may be more helpful than words in expanding the understanding of Mr. Biggs and some who share his limitations, I recommend to the citizens of Kindle Nation that this 30 second video — yes, it is an Amazon commercial — may be helpful.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWd9WXFdYI4]

Of course, the Kindle has its limitations too, some of which — like the Kindle’s inability to play this video — some serious readers may consider a strength. So, if you are reading this post on your Kindle, and you want to see the video, you’ll need to type in http://bit.ly/KindleBeach on a computer. Or on your iPad.

From the Kindle Nation Mailbag: “Looking to buy a previously loved Kindle”

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Thanks to Facebook friend and author Imogen Rose for sharing this question:

Looking to buy a previously loved Kindle (to be able to check my formatting) , so if you know anyone who is selling, let me know!

Imogen, by the way, is the bestselling author of the Portal Chronicles, a time travel fantasy which, her website says, will appeal to fans of Twilight, Evermore and Sookie Stackhouse.

Just happens that it is a great time to save over 15% on refurbished Kindles sold directly by Amazon, Imogen, including:

These refurbished units are covered by Amazon’s free 30-day return policy and have generally been described by buyers as “just like new,” but it is worth noting that, rather strangely, they are shipped without the Kindle AC adaptor plug, which will mean you’d have to spend another $9-$10 on something like this.

While I personally believe that a Kindle is a must-own for any author for all kinds of reasons, it is also worth mentioning that, while you’re waiting for your Kindle, there’s another work-around available to you to check your formatting, which is to check it out on a PC or Mac by downloading one or more of the free Kindle apps that are available for just about everything but a pre-21st century toaster over these days.

Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Step-by-Step Tip: Amazon & Open Library Collaborate So You Can Send Tens of Thousands of Free eBooks Directly to Your Kindle via Whispernet

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By Stephen Windwalker, Kindle Nation Daily

The process of sending any of tens of thousands of free classic books directly to your Kindle just got easier and more seamless than ever thanks to a terrific new collaboration between Amazon and the Internet Archive’s “Open Library” project. As Kindle Nation readers know from this post last year, we were already able to download about two million Internet Archives titles to our computers for transfer via USB connection.

Now you can find any of tens of thousands of free ebooks on the “Open Library” website and send them directly and wirelessly to your Kindle. (Thanks to Len Edgerly for tweeting a heads up.) There are nearly half a million ebooks in the Open Library archive, but not all are available free).

The process is simple:

  • Search for a title at Open Library. You can search by author or subject, click on the “More search options” link near the upper right corner of the page, or use the very cool Publishing History tool to see all the accessible ebooks published in any year in the past two millennia.
  • Click on any title that is accompanied by a “Read” icon like the one shown at the right, and on the next page click on the “Send to Kindle” link for any edition of the title, as seen at the right of the screen shot below for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s early novel This Side of Paradise:

That click will take you directly to Amazon where, after you sign into your account (if necessary), Amazon will show you a screen like the one below to inform you about its Whispernet personal document policies and fees and prompt you to select the Kindle to which you want to send the title. Once you click “continue,” the free book should be visible on your Kindle home screen within 60 seconds.

If you’d like to peruse the kind of great selections that are available in this free archive, here are a couple of hundred titles that came up first when I typed “Scribners” into the search field. Click on a title or cover image to get to the “Send to Kindle” link, on an author’s name to see other works by the author, or on the “Read” link to begin reading the text right on your computer. Scroll down to the bottom or click on this link to make a donation to Open Library.

Congratulations to The Kindle Chronicles for 100 Great Podcasts!

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Congratulations and big-time kudos are due Len Edgerly for a major milestone in putting up the 100th show of The Kindle Chronicles’ regular Friday podcast.

Check out this week’s centennial podcast here, and while you are at it you might even want to join me in signing up to become an honorary The Kindle Chronicles subscriber. Len’s energy and great reporting in serving the Kindle community are equaled only by his discipline in getting the podcast out on deadline every week for nearly two years now, and I was happy to have the chance to commit myself to supporting his efforts with a dollar a week.

After all, that’s all it took to get me VIP status with The Kindle Chronicles. There may have been times in the past when I would never have joined any club that would have me as a member, but VIP status at TKC? That’s a different kindle of fish, and Len’s gain is Starbucks’ loss.

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